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Meet the Indian-origin teen who got into all 8 Ivy League schools

The 17-year-old has developed a mobile app that analyses speech patterns and predicts with 96 per cent accuracy if a person has Parkinson's disease Pooja has now shortlisted Harvard, Stanford and......

The Smart Thing Vs The Right Thing

What should one choose to do, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The other day, as I got into the aircraft on a flight from Delhi to Mumbai, realising that I was in......

Dead Indian American student showed signs of depression

The family of Sunil Tripathi, the Indian-American student whose body was recovered from the Providence river in the US state of Rhode Island, has said that the 22-year-old had shown signs of......

Flight delayed after passenger reports professor's equations as suspicious

An Italian economist says his flight was delayed for over two hours after a fellow woman passenger saw him working on an equation she thought was some special secret terrorist code and alerted the......

The marketing of Rahul Gandhi

If a creed has to work, it must carry the weight of conviction, not just the frippery of an electoral tactic. Is Rahul Gandhi indulging in ritual appeasement, or is he seeding the climate for......

'Pampered' IITians make a start in helping the poor

This is not the commonly-known 'creamy layer' hierarchy within India's Dalits, but the group long known as the face of India's 'brain-drain': the IITians. The Indian Institutes of Technology, 15......

Take visual literacy seriously

Students’ flagging interest in the written word is because of a generational digital divide, says Ajit Balakrishnan. Teachers everywhere, be it at our IIMs or at our high schools or at......

Cognizant recruiting from top US schools

Cognizant Technology Solutions is recruiting management graduates from Ivy League B-schools in the US such as Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Columbia. The new recruits are being shipped to......

Are you born to be a billionaire?

Are billionaires born or made? What are the common attributes among the uber-wealthy? Are there any true secrets of the self-made? We get these questions a lot, and decided it was time to go beyond......

IITians gush over Nohria's appointment as HBS dean

The sense of pride and utter joy by some high profile Indian American alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, that one of their own Nitin Nohria, had been appointed the new dean of......

The BEST OTT SHOWS of 2021

Once upon a time, we were so starved for entertainment that anything from documentaries on agriculture to hours of classical music was happily lapped up. But in the day and age of streaming,......

PIX: When Shah Rukh Khan kept his date with Yale

Shah Rukh Khan, who became the first Bollywood personality to be honoured with the prestigious Chubb Fellowship at Yale University, delivered his lecture as a Fellow amidst cheering fans and......

Better Luck Tomorrow: a work in progress

This would be the dream of many independent producers: make a movie on a shoestring budget, wait till it makes news at a majorfestival, hope for a bit of controversyand sell it to a major company.......

Why I am thankful to Hasan Minhaj

'You made me realise that it is great to be brown, even if we are currently living under Donald Trump's false definition of America.''In my 36 years in America there have been few instances where I......

Weekend Watch

Film: Chandni (Hindi)Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Sridevi, Vinod Khanna and Juhi Chawla (special appearance).Director: Yash ChopraPlot: Love blooms between business class guy (Kapoor) and working class girl......

Saurabh Netravalkar is destiny's child, says father

IMAGE: USA cricket team hero Saurabh Netravalkar celebrates with family members after the win against Pakistan on Thursday. Photograph: X Day job of a software engineer in Oracle, developed his......

10 BEST Sports Photos of the Week!

Sports fans around the world witnessed some eye-catching action in the last week of 2015. Tennis stars played with Koalas and cricketers codded their kids at the Melbourne Cricket Ground......

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